Flight attendants held a demonstration at several airports in Southern California and dozens of others nationwide as part of a Worldwide Flight Attendant Day of Action, demanding better pay and working conditions.
Picketers were at Los Angeles International Airport, John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana and Ontario International Airport on Tuesday.
No flights are expected to be impacted by the protest.
“This is a fight for Flight Attendants and a war on corporate greed,” the Association of Professional Flight Attendants said in a statement. “We fight for our role to be respected; we fight for our value as humans to be restored; and we fight for the job dedicated to the safety and comfort of the flying public.”
Unions representing more than 100,000 flight attendants from airlines including American, Alaska, Frontier, Southwest and United are demanding retirement benefits and more flexible schedules.
The unions also want flight attendants to be paid for all their time working. Most are not compensated for time spent waiting between flights in the airport or even time boarding the plane.